After Many a Summer

London: Chatto and Windus, 1939.

Price: $225.00

Hardcover. First edition. A touch cocked with some sunning to the spine and the bottom edge of the front board, very good. Distinctive ownership Signature of Elsa Schiaparelli on the title page. Schiaparelli was one of the world’s premiere designers during the 1930s, who pioneered numerous now-iconic fashions elements such as the divided skirt, trompe-l'oeil detailing, synthetic materials, and exposed fasteners, and as well as incorporated surrealist designed into her work through her collaboration with Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali. A *Burgess 99* title.

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Item #396571 After Many a Summer. Aldous HUXLEY.

Aldous Huxley
birth name: Aldous Leonard Huxley
born: 7/26/1894
died: 11/22/1963
nationality: Great Britain

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English novelist and critic whose works are notable for their elegance, wit, and pessimistic satire. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore